Robert E. Litan

Former Expert

Robert Litan was a nonresident senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings, where he formerly had been vice president and director of Economic Studies as well as a senior fellow. As an economist and attorney, Litan has had nearly four decades of experience in the worlds of the law, economic research and policy, and as an executive in both the private, public and government sectors. Through his extensive publications and many speeches and testimony, he has become a widely recognized national expert in regulation, antitrust, finance, among other policy subjects.

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Past Positions

Director of Research, Bloomberg-Gov, Washington, D.C.

Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Vice President and Director, Economic Studies Program and Cabot Family Chair in Economics, The Brookings Institution

The cost to our economy of highly restricted credit from banks and other debt providers is that young businesses are prevented from adequately investing in their companies to fund growth and create jobs.